# The Land Above Water

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**Author:** Manik Sharma[⌊A sample cover of the book: brown handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The-Land-Above-Water.jpg)**


Pages: 52
 
Year of Publication: 2012
 
Price: Rs 100
 
ISBN:
 
978-93-5045-031-
4 (9789350450314)
  _About the Book_ Manik Sharma’s poems are lyrical and haunting.
His choice of words is delicate and, at the same time, they enter the deepest recesses
of the reader’s mind, evoking emotional memories. This emotional connect that Sharma’s
words and images forge with his readers makes his poems linger within them, much
after one’s first reading.  _Teaser_ 

_Collar Men_ 

I crawled through the fashioned streets
 Warding off eyes with grief pouring out
like the mailbag of the postman I never think of He waits under a borrowed umbrella
Waiting for the ink on his own letters to dry He carries them around all the time
with names in them, he wishes someone knows The asphalt grass cleaves to his boots
Like a few torn pages from his book of gods and their coming, He lowers his head
and disappears among the dripping collars of grown men that I live inside day and
night I stand behind glass doors, It’s not my sun that is setting 

**_Contents_****
 
36 poems